Blue & White Porcelain Fish Design Jardinière Jewellery This Japanese cha dansu tea

This Japanese cha dansu tea chest dates from the end of the Meiji Period (1868-1912)

it could well be far older

The clean lines and understated proportions give the piece a timeless functional elegance

A similar example can be found in Auspicious by Design by Corona (Plate 73)

Although often associated with tika boxes due to their similar construction

Blue & White Porcelain Fish Design Jardinière Jewellery This Japanese cha dansu teaThis Chinese porcelain jardinire is decorated with a delicate a provincial fish design and is ideally suited to be used as a flower vase, perhaps an orchid, or a flowing crawler such as a devil's ivy. The fish is a longstanding symbol of wealth in China as the Chinese symbol for fish 'yu' can also be translated to 'abundance'. In ancient China, a fish in water symbolised marital harmony. All our reproduction Chinese porcelain is made in Jingdezhen,